Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Wagner Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Adam Arkin. The year is 1967. Larry Gopnik, a physics professor, learns from his wife Judith that she is leaving him because she has fallen in love with one of the family...
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen.
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Wagner Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Adam Arkin.
The year is 1967. Larry Gopnik, a physics professor, learns from his wife Judith that she is leaving him because she has fallen in love with one of the family friends. Larry is driven crazy by his unemployed brother Arthur, who lives off him, his undisciplined and lazy son Danny, and his daughter Sarah, who steals his money for a nose job. But that's not all. An anonymous hate letter writer tries to strip him of his college position, a student tries to bribe him for a positive grade while threatening him with a defamation lawsuit, and a beautiful neighbor teases him with her nudity. Larry asks three different rabbis for advice. Can anyone show him a way out of his desperate situation? How to become a righteous person - a serious person? The Coen brothers' comedy drama raises questions about loyalty, family responsibility, evil, Jewishness and mortality.
